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  1. L

    Any Way to Rid Log Bowl Blanks of Bugs

    If your shop lathe is in an attached garage, or in your basement, what do you do to prevent bringing bugs into your shop that are embed in the log-wood; either as a chain sawn bowl blank to be mounted on your lathe , or to be sawn into a blank on your bandsaw?
  2. C

    Boric Acid to Treat for Bugs??

    I was recently given some very nice cherry logs that unfortunately turned out to have powder post beetles in them. I would like to treat the cut up blanks to kill the little buggers, rather than let them chew up/ruin the wood and, much worse, be invited into my shop. A while ago, a termite...
  3. Jamie Straw

    Bug control around wood stash

    OK, I've dismantled most of my "flat stock" lumber rack, installed one of those steel shelving units with the open-grid shelves for air circulation. Given the close-to-nature character of my shop -- old garage with lots of air leaks and entrance points for vermin and bugs -- I want to provide...
  4. Bill Boehme

    The Official Bugs Thread

    The purpose of this thread is to post any bugs that you identify in the behavior of the new forum. Off topic posts will be deleted. Who am I kidding? Would you believe mildly frowned upon? How about usual lax rules apply.
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